I've been thinking about this for a few days and thought it might be a fun thread. See what you think.
First, I was so young nobody would think of letting me have a pistol. So, not knowing any better (and watching Wanted, Dead or Alive on TV), I cut down my worn out old single-shot Remington rolling block .22 rifle into a pistol and I made a holster for it. Next, I was still young and poor but I managed to somehow get my hands on a cheap copy of a Colt single-shot derringer in .22 Short, my first fishing pistol I could put in my pocket. Later on, still young and poor, I got hold of a little pocket sized RG .22 revolver like the ones they used to sell by mail order in the 1960s for about $17 to $20. That actually made a pretty passable fishing gun. Every RG I've ever tried has worked OK, despite looking like the pot metal junk they were. By the time I was old enough to walk into a gun shop or a pawn shop and plunk down some cold cash I graduated to "the big time," used Harrington & Richardson (H&R) .22 revolvers, which were low priced but decent guns. I still have a pair of them, too. About a year after I was married, my lovely wife saved up and bought me a beautiful, brand new S&W .22 Kit Gun with a 4 inch barrel, my first nice pistol. I've carried it many a mile and fired many thousands of rounds through it, the bulk of them being .22 Shorts. That's one gun I'll never part with!
So, tell us, what were your cheapest, junkiest, or crummiest guns that you carried and used?
First, I was so young nobody would think of letting me have a pistol. So, not knowing any better (and watching Wanted, Dead or Alive on TV), I cut down my worn out old single-shot Remington rolling block .22 rifle into a pistol and I made a holster for it. Next, I was still young and poor but I managed to somehow get my hands on a cheap copy of a Colt single-shot derringer in .22 Short, my first fishing pistol I could put in my pocket. Later on, still young and poor, I got hold of a little pocket sized RG .22 revolver like the ones they used to sell by mail order in the 1960s for about $17 to $20. That actually made a pretty passable fishing gun. Every RG I've ever tried has worked OK, despite looking like the pot metal junk they were. By the time I was old enough to walk into a gun shop or a pawn shop and plunk down some cold cash I graduated to "the big time," used Harrington & Richardson (H&R) .22 revolvers, which were low priced but decent guns. I still have a pair of them, too. About a year after I was married, my lovely wife saved up and bought me a beautiful, brand new S&W .22 Kit Gun with a 4 inch barrel, my first nice pistol. I've carried it many a mile and fired many thousands of rounds through it, the bulk of them being .22 Shorts. That's one gun I'll never part with!
So, tell us, what were your cheapest, junkiest, or crummiest guns that you carried and used?
Gun functioned flawlessly and the timing was perfect . . . only problem was it keyholed so badly you literally could not accurately hit a paper plate from 10 feet away. I shit you not, the grouping at 10 feet was over 2 ft in diameter -- and most of the holes were rectangular due to the slug hitting the target sideways. I ended up disassembling the gun and burying the parts in the woods because it would've been embarrassing to have gotten caught with such an inferior weapon.
